"Some
of these songs sing of the 'terrible beauty' Yeats wrote about. Others sing of
love, homesickness, emigration, the music and the craic. All of them are
sung in Irish homes, halls and pubs and reflect the spirit, traditions and
history of the Irish people." Frank
Lennon

Enjoy
them!

Click on the button above for the
"Lyrics" page

ALL
TITLES ARRANGED BY FRANK LENNON

PLEASE
ACKNOWLEDGE IF POSTING ON ANOTHER WEBSITE

[IF
YOU WISH TO POST ANY OF THESE MIDI FILES ON YOUR OWN WEBSITE PLEASE FEEL FREE TO
DO SO BUT ALSO PLEASE GIVE RECOGNITION TO THE FACT THAT I ARRANGED THESE IRISH
MIDI FILES, BY POSTING WITH THEM, MY NAME AND/OR WEBSITE ADDRESS]

(while
some of these songs may not be of Irish origin, they will be heard played in
Irish bars)

(NB:
Midi Files are like Karaoke without the words. If you click on a midi file it
should use your soundcard to play. If you have a good soundcard and the midi
file is well arranged it should sound realistic like music on a CD. Midi files
may be song tracks, symphonies, jingles etc.)

All the following
MIDI files were arranged using the 128 GM sounds and settings on a Korg NS5R Sound
Module and Roland's "Virtual Sound Canvas". As your sound source may be different, these MIDI files may require tweaking. For
example, instead of using the mandolin sound from one of the many NS5R sound banks, I
chose instead to "create" the sound using one of the GM guitar sounds as these
GM sounds can be found on almost all sound sources. While this is acceptable on my sound
source, some changes may be required on your sound source. My tenor banjo sound may also
need fixing. Other settings such as reverb, chorus, transpose etc may need
re-aligning. These files were all arranged to closely resemble a typical Irish ballad group
(I used to play in one called "Folklore" many years ago) with a possible
selection of guitar, 5 string banjo, tenor banjo, flute, tin whistle, bodhran and bass -
no uileann pipes sound is possible as not even the GM bagpipes sound is anywhere
near realistic. I have used poetic licence to enhance many of the songs to sound the way I
would love to have them sound. These files may be used in the teaching or learning of Irish
songs or "ballads" as they're called here in Ireland or indeed may be used as
backing tracks in a "live" performance situation. As a matter of fact you will
find that most of them have intros, endings, key changes, additional instrumental verses
etc. for use as "live" backing tracks so haul out that guitar, hitch your sound source to a PA
system, crank up the volume, open the "lyrics" page and a bottle of Guinness and
pretend you're in your favourite Irish singing pub in Dublin and you're the
singer!!!!!!!!

For Lyrics and Chord
Arrangements to all the songs go to "Lyrics" page

To download a MIDI
file, ZIP file, lyric sheet or image, right click on the object and then click on one of the options offered
( save picture as; save target as
etc.)
and download it to a place where you know you will find it. Also give
it a name you'll remember. Prior to going on the Internet it is always
advisable to open a new folder, preferably on your desktop to download to and
maybe give it a name associated with what you're downloading eg. "Midi
Files".